Students use their prior knowledge of addition to fluently find the sum of two numbers given to them. They demonstrate their strategies of addition problems as well as explain them to their peers amongst their groups.

Students match various multiplication and division story problems to models that represent those problems and then they match each problem & model to the conceptual meaning of multiplication or division (e.g., multiplication as grouping; division as sharing)

Students interpret a multiplication problem situation, in the context of ice cream scoops, using pictures, objects, words, numbers, and equations. They come to understand that repeated addition and skip counting are strategies for finding a product.

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“solving world problems” is a pun on the way that word problems in math often have little to do with students’ real worlds. This site provides resources for engaging every student in math & for connecting math to issues that matter.